It could be a normal response with ageing: Doof, doof, doof, ....... .
Please excuse me now as I need to go watch another stupid comic book movie.
Often overlooked but very important: in our youth there was a lot of garbage music too, but what remains now and what we still listen to has stood the test of time and can therefore subjectively be qualified as 'good'.Oh, hell. The fact of the matter is pop music becomes less musical and more mindless rhythmic garbage with each new generation. And it's propagated by corporate greed with no regard for quality or how it's going to screw humanity. A lot of it sounds like it was crapped out by a computer algorithm programmed to appeal to simple minds. ...And as was once mentioned by a Beatle, there are a lot of people who like mediocre music. Popularity and generating capital is not a proper way to judge quality, but that's what you get with capital driven pop culture. Admittedly there are exceptions but certainly not the norm.
Please excuse me now as I need to go watch another stupid comic book movie.
Often overlooked but very important: in our youth there was a lot of garbage music too, but what remains now and what we still listen to has stood the test of time and can therefore subjectively be qualified as 'good'.
The comparison is therefore unfair and heavily biased: we compare the best of the (familiar) past with the entirety of the (unfamiliar) present!
Music of the past also had production memes/trends and overused effects.
Music of the past also had production memes/trends and overused effects. Today auto-tune and other effects are obviously cheaper and more easily available, but the flipside is that music production in general is also much easier, cheaper and widely available. So while there is a lot more crap, there is also a lot more quality content, from people who wouldn't have been able to record and publish their music back in the 60s or 70s.
That's a true observation and it pervades all levels of (consumer) goods. Too much choice like 10 types of salt in the supermarket with a hundred different opinions about it is stifling and time consuming. The natural defense against such overloads is indifference, exactly what we see in the majority of audio consumers.Since the internet and social media exploded it's become much more difficult to weed through everything. Beside the crap way the music industry promotes new music it's like the vast majority of peoples' opinions (and good new music) are lost like drops of water in seas of noise. I can't imagine it getting better.
Bloody kids these days, no donkeys on the lawn!I guess I'm too old and cynical but I've not seen anything to make me hope for better in decades. It just gets progressively worse.
That 1980s drum sound...
Since the internet and social media exploded it's become much more difficult to weed through everything. Beside the crap way the music industry promotes new music it's like the vast majority of peoples' opinions (and good new music) are lost like drops of water in seas of noise. I can't imagine it getting better. I guess I'm too old and cynical but I've not seen anything to make me hope for better in decades. It just gets progressively worse.
That's a true observation and it pervades all levels of (consumer) goods. Too much choice like 10 types of salt in the supermarket with a hundred different opinions about it is stifling and time consuming. The natural defense against such overloads is indifference, exactly what we see in the majority of audio consumers.
Too much choice like 10 types of salt in the supermarket with a hundred different opinions about it is stifling and time consuming.
Get out more, see the world, visit a large supermarket!That leaves me... stunned.
Get out more, see the world, visit a large supermarket!
My "stunned" is now at 11.
I survived Mere Richard.Jeez, better stay away from a big pan-Asian market or a decent cheese shop.
That 1980s drum sound...
Indeed. Devo was the first band to extensively use this sound. Others emulated it without understanding that everything Devo did was a tongue in cheek swipe at mankind regressing (or de-evolving, hence the band's name).